About

I design speculative proposals that envision new futures, influencing the distribution of power, resources, and opportunity. Sometimes, these investigations take form as a performance where the goal is to destabilize known truths or expectations. Often, it takes form as an object that troubles the material matters that make up the everyday. These multimodal approaches are grounded in extending understanding in the complexities of contemporary commodity culture, amplifying regenerative practices steeped in ancestral knowledges, and supporting human well-being through hands-on artistic endeavors.

Edi Dai (she/they) is an artist, educator, and cultural producer living and working in Los Angeles and the Bay Area, California. They received an M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art in 2019 and a B.A. in Studio Art from the University of California, Irvine in 2010. They’re the recipient of the Martha Trevor Award from the American Institute of Graphic Arts as well as the Helen Watson Winternitz Award and the Post-Graduate Research Fellowship from the Yale School of Art. Group exhibitions of their work have been included at the Beall Art and Technology Center, Transmitter Gallery, 41 Cooper Gallery, Culver Center of the Arts, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid in New York. In 2018, they were part of the inaugural Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative Fellowship at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Currently, they’re an artist in residence at Pilgrim School, Los Angeles.

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Contact:
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